Jeremy Nelissen
Jacob Lillard
Reference Information
Celine Latulipe, Annabel Manning, CHI 2010 Atlanta, GA April 2010
Summary
This article combines a lot of artistic aspects and how technology plays a crucial role in that aspect. Annabel Manning is an artist who attempted to combine technology and audience interaction in order to make a piece that could be shared and allowed for people to get involved in the process. She took images from US border cameras of people trying to illegally immigrate into the country and break down these images into layers that could be affected in a number of different characteristics (brightness, contrast, level of detail, etc.) This was displayed at the art installation and audience members were given two gyroscopic mice in order to manipulate the image. Different people were assigned different layers of the image that could be affected by the moving of their mice. When multiple cursors were crossed, a localized screen shot was taken and uploaded online. The article also goes into detail about what program and basic hardware she used. symShow and symTone allowed her to each most of the project.
Discussion
The idea of this project is a very interesting one. Getting people involved in the process can produce many unique styles and versions of this same image that Manning got from a simple infrared camera. Having multiple people change different layers and characteristics could produce many different styles. However, I do not believe that I would consider this art. The mere act of involving your audience I think takes away that label. The artist should provide the viewer his or her interpretation of a work or idea. When the viewer interacts with that, I think it ruins that aspect. On the other hand, you could make the argument that the artist is giving the viewer only a limited scope of interaction that will therefore push the viewer in the right direction of his or her interpretation. Once again art is pushing the envelope on what is and is not art.
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